Flying-machine.



W. A. MoG'URD.

FLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17, 1903.

Patented June 15,1909.

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FLYING MACHINE.

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WALLACE ATHERTON MCCURD, OF NORTH FINCHLEY, ENGLAND.

FLYING-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Application filed April 17, 1908. Serial No. 427,583.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALLACE ATHERTON MCCURD, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Bellbrook, Ballards- Lane, North Finchley, in

thecounty of Middlesex, England, have intiented a new and useful Improvement in Fly-ing-ltfachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to flying machines, and it consists in employing a series of planes which are caused to travel backward and forward in a suitable frame and to automatically reverse the angle of their inview in side elevation, Fig. 2 is a view in end I elevation, and Fig. 3 is a broken view in s ide-elevation on an enlarged scale of one of the aeroplanes.

Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.

The frame a of the machine, which may be of any suitable shape and construction, carries a series of guides or runner bars I) b arranged one over the other and preferably in parallel relation to one another. 011 these guides are mounted a series of planes 0 which planes are so mounted that they can be caused to travel backward and forward in the frame and so that their angle of 'inclination can be altered or reversed. One method of attaining this end is that illustrated" which consists in mounting each plane at or about the center of its length on a pair of brackets (Z which carry four rollers or pulleys e e 6 and e. The two former are arranged one over the other and are adapted to contact the upper and under sides of the guides or runner bars I), and the two latter (6 and 6*) are arranged fore and aft respectively of the other rollers, the said rollers e and 6 when the plane is on an even keel being a short distance from the runner bars '6. This distance may be. made capable of adjustment if desired to vary the tilt of the plane. A downward extension of each bracket d forms an arm f by means of which the plane is caused to assume the de-' sired angle, and through which the driving motion is imparted to it. Motion is imparted to the planes in any suitable mannor, a convenient one being that illustrated which consists of flexible cords ,h connected to the arms f and guided by suitable pulleys j carried by the frame a, motion being .imparted to the said cords from any suitable source of power, the arrangement being such" that while one plane is traveling in one direction it is also imparting motion to another either in the same or in the opp its direction.

I do not limit myself to the use of any particular method of obtaining the necessary motion for imparting motion'to; the planes, that shown in the drawing being merely by way of illustration. It consists of a motor Z driving a shaft m which carriesa (fi'ank m which is coupled by means of a connecting rod n to an oscillating frame 0 which imparts a reversing rotary motion to a pulley p'to which the flexible cords h are attached.

It will be seen that the pull of the cords h first tilts the planes to the predetermined angle and then imparts motion to them, .the angle of inclination and the direction of r0- tation being simultaneously altered.

It will be understood that any desired number of planes may be employed and that one half of them are caused to traverse the frame in one direction while the other half travels in the opposite direction.

\Vhat I claim my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a flying machine, a plurality of guides arrangedone over the other, a plurality of planes adapted to traverse said guides and set at a predetermined angle to said guides, the inclination of one half of the planes being opposed to that of the other half, and means for imparting a reciprocating motion to said planes and for reversing their angle of inclination, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a flying machine, a plurality of guides arranged one over the other and in parallel relation to one another, a plurality of planes adapted to traverse said guides and set at a predetermined an le tosaid guides, the inclination of one half of the planes being opposed to that of the other half, and means for imparting a reciprocating motion to said planes and for automatically reversing their angle of inclination as and when their direction is reversed, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a flying machine, a plurality of guides arran ed one over the other and in parallel relatlon to one another, a plurality of planes adapted to traverse said guides in pairs in oppositedirections said planes being set at. a predetermined angle to said guides, theinclination of one of each pair of planes-being opposed to that of the other,

said guides and mounted to traverse said guides one half of said planes moving in a direction opposite to that of the other half and the inclination of one half of the planes being opposed to that of the other-half, means for imparting reciprocating motion to said planes, and means for automatically reversing the angle of inclination of said planes as and for the purpose set forth.

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\ G. V. Sums,

F. L. RAND.

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